Re:Moving Towards a More Secure Web
by Cortez on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:17PM
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But saying something is insecure doesn't make it secure.
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Yes it does, it forces people to avoid it, indirectly forcing the creator to make it secure.
Avoiding it doesn't push to make it secure, communicating with the creator directly will.
It's unreasonable to expect Google to email every website owner in the world to tell them to switch to TLS.
Lots of people avoiding it will give the creator a much bigger incentive, though.
No. However, Google have a plan for this. Apparently right now HTTPS is considered a 'strong signal' in google rankings, which normally gets the message to most site owners/product people.